CDU on migration and integration

The CDU wants to set up intensive classes at secondary schools for children and teenagers who do not know enough German. Only once they have sufficient command of the language are they to move into regular classes. The party sees language skills as a condition for success at school.

The CDU wants special German classes. Children and teenagers first learn German well there. Only then do they join a regular class. The party says school does not work without German.

The German classes are to be mixed-age and teach the language intensively. The move into a regular class depends on sufficient language skills. At Realschule plus schools, intensive language classes are to be mandatory, especially at schools that currently have a high share of students with a migration background.

The CDU wants to manage and limit migration. Asylum seekers would stay in initial reception centers until their case is decided and, if they have no right to stay, be deported directly from there. To do this, the party plans a central immigration authority and a state-run deportation facility.

The CDU wants less unregulated immigration. Asylum cases should take only a few months. Asylum seekers would stay in a state facility during that time. People who may not stay would be deported from there. A central office would organize this.

Asylum procedures would be decided within a few months and become more digital. Under the program, only people with prospects of staying would be distributed to municipalities. A central immigration authority at the ADD, the state's supervisory agency, would bundle all immigration-law procedures and coordinate deportations, with priority for criminal offenders. The state would build its own return capacity, including a central deportation facility. Refugees who are required to leave and have committed crimes would no longer be housed in municipalities but placed in pre-departure detention. The CDU also backs the federal government's course and wants illegal entries stopped at the borders.

The CDU wants asylum seekers to receive support as benefits in kind rather than cash, aligned with neighboring states. Intake should be based on how many people municipalities can absorb, and the state should cover a larger share of the costs.

Asylum seekers would get housing, food and care instead of money. The CDU wants to align this with neighboring states. Towns should only take in as many people as they can manage. The state should pay more of the costs.

Under the program, support would be given as accommodation, meals and care so that benefits offer no incentive to move to another state or municipality. The state would contribute more to the costs of housing, support and integration. The CDU also wants to identify which vacant state and federal properties could serve as accommodation. This is meant to relieve municipalities financially and organizationally.

The CDU sees integration as an obligation. It wants a binding integration agreement and mandatory language, integration and orientation courses from day one. Refugees with a permanent right to stay should get early access to work.

The CDU says integration is a duty. Immigrants would get an agreement that lists their duties. Language courses would be required from the first day. There would also be required courses on values in Germany. People who may stay should be able to work quickly.

The integration agreement would set out mutual obligations, such as language courses, job search and learning about values. Language support for adults should lead to independent communication in daily life and at work. Orientation courses would teach basic democratic and liberal values; the program names women's rights, freedom of religion, tolerance and Israel's right to exist as non-negotiable. For the labor market, the CDU wants to cut red tape between job centers, immigration offices and employers and to support companies that train and integrate people. It also plans job-related language and education programs, for example for skilled trades, nursing care, restaurants and manufacturing.